Verizon scandal: Barack Obama's national security state is now beyond democratic control

Verizon scandal: Barack Obama's national security state is now beyond democratic control – Telegraph Blogs: "Those crazy American conspiracy theorists who live up trees with guns and drink their own pee don’t seem quite so crazy anymore. It turns out that a “secret court order” has empowered the US government to collect the phone records of millions of users of Verizon, one of the most popular telephone providers – a massive domestic surveillance programme and a shocking intrusion into the lives of others. For the first time in history, being an AT&T customer doesn’t seem such a bad thing after all."